Used to secure trailer houses to the ground. Was hunting in Home Depot yesterday for something else and ran across this little gem. Replacement straps are over $100, only sold in pairs. Some jughead wouldn't wait to put penetrating oil on the bolt, so they just cut the strap. I think they make this stuff up as they go.īut in other news, I was looking at having to buy new gas tank straps because one of mine is cut. I worked on the bed and frame a little last week in the "grauple". Work on the truck has slowed because work has been busy and weather has been terrible. Never well timed and usually with some smoke on em. And be ready for all the curveballs that life will inevitably throw your way. Hopefully before the end of the year I'll be back to like nothing happened. Maybe in a couple of months I can ditch the cane. Sometimes I get down because I can't do what I want to, but then I stop and think, It could have been worse. I still can't walk well, far, or without the help of a cane, but considering 21 days ago, I couldn't even stand to stand on it, gimping around on this cane and mostly being able to walk, with pain, is a pretty good accomplishment. I was released to start partially bearing weight on June 1, back to driving June 10. Lots of thinking, reading, watching TV, and in essence being a big do-nothing lump. Another 8 weeks of sitting around not being able to bear any weight, no driving, really nothing at all.
FLOOR PAN SHEET METAL YELLOW BULLET FORUMS INSTALL
15 days later, I had surgery #2 to install 2 plates and 11 screws to mend everything together. Two days later I had surgery #1 to install an external fixator to stabilize the break and let the swelling go down. After cleaning and stitching some cuts from a flowerpot that helped to break my fall, I got the bad news.your leg is broke and you need surgery. When my wife got home from a softball scrimmage, we went to the ER. Hoping it was just badly sprained I got my son cleaned up, fed, and to bed. Long story short, shattered the end of my tibia. Landed on the concrete with my right ankle just right. The air hose for the nailer was laying across the ladder, and instead of the rung, I stepped on the air hose. Well, a handful of nails away from being done for the evening, I was coming down the extension ladder and anxiously placing the last 6 nails of the evening, clean up, eat supper, and call it good for the day. Me! While taking advantage of a rare very slow week, I decided that it was time to turn away from the truck project for a while and work on some home projects that had been building up for a while. It did just dawn on me that I probably need to find out where my emergency brake cables are at and get my brake hoses installed so all of that assembly is back together and the frame is as complete as I need it to be. Then just maybe by spring I'll be able to get the exterior paint shot and start on the reassembly process. Soundproofing the cab, fitting the gas tank, rough fit the floormat, etc. All the little things that go into getting it back like the dash stuff and gauges, wiring, etc. I feel like that process may take a good bit of time. I may even get ansy and paint the cab interior so I can start working on getting that halfway put back together. I am planning to have the cab sheet metal done, body work done, and doors fit and ready to roll along with the front clip fit and ready for paint before I have to evict everything from the shop come Jan 1. fire is small now, but I'll keep pouring the coals to it, and fall will be here before I know it. Like the title of the post, building a fire to get up a head of steam. So other than cleaning up in and around the shop, which seems to be a perpetual activity, I'm getting primed to get back to work and hammer down. Too hard on the old bones to sandblast in this weather. So I'm starting to really prioritize what I need to work on once I'm able to, and this 100+degree heat subsides. Still don't have the stamina or strength that I had before, but I figure if I keep pushing it I'll get better. Well, my injury progress has improved and am able to more or less get around again.